InterPhil: CFP: International Studies
__ Call for Papers Theme: International Studies Type: 3rd European Workshops in International Studies (EWIS) Institution: European International Studies Association (EISA) University of Tübingen Location: Tübingen (Germany) Date: 6.–8.4.2016 Deadline: 2.10.2015 __ The European Workshops in International Studies (EWIS) 2016 take place at the University of Tuebingen, Germany, 6-8 April 2016. There will be 20 workshops. You can find a full list of workshops with convenors and a short description here: http://www.eisa-net.org/sitecore/content/be-bruga/eisa/events/ewis.aspx WS A: Worlding beyond the Clash of Civilization: An Agenda for an International Relations – Islam Discourse WS B: Resilience and World Politics WS C: Institutionalized Inequalities – How International Organizations Shape Global Order WS D: An International Society of What? The State and Beyond WS E: The Politics of Translation in World Society: On Discourses, Knowledge and Ordering WS F: Rethinking Responsibility: Military Humanitarianism beyond Western States? WS G: Social Media´s Puzzle and Possibilities in/on IR WS H: Exploring New Forms of Cooperation between Europe, Africa and Rising Powers WS I: Secure worlds in motion: exploring the security/mobility nexus WS J: Doing Research Differently: Empirical Challenges for Postcolonial/Decolonial IR WS K: Geopolitics and strategic thinking in EU foreign policy WS L: Political Struggle and Performative Rights in Global Politics: New Directions in Research WS M: The Politics of Otherness: The Identity/Alterity Nexus in International Relations WS N: Popular Culture and World Politics – Time, Identity, Effect, Affect WS O: International Politics in the Anthropocene WS P: Decentred Practices of Regionality: How the Practical Turn in IR and Critical Border Studies Contribute to Theorising Regionalism WS Q: Transforming violent war-economies: What we know and what we need to know WS R: Living the “new normal”: Post-crisis politics of money, debt and time WS S: Human rights, humanitarianism, security: beyond the sovereign politics of life WS T: Regional Integration for Peace? Comparing Integration Experiences Across Regions Each workshop may accept up to 20 participants. Please note that participants are expected to attend their workshop for the entire period of the event. The deadline for paper proposals is 2 October 2015. Proposals MUST be submitted via this link: https://www.conftool.pro/ewis2016/ Applicants will be notified about the outcome of the selection process by the end of October 2016. Keynote Speaker The keynote speaker at the plenary on 6 April will be Michael Zürn, Director of the Global Governance research unit at the WZB-Berlin Social Science Centre and a graduate of Tübingen University. Conference website: http://www.eisa-net.org/sitecore/content/be-bruga/eisa/events/ewis.aspx __ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org __
InterPhil: CFP: The European Union and the Politicization of Europe
__ Call for Papers Theme: The European Union and the Politicization of Europe Type: 4th International Conference Institution: Euroacademia Anglo-American University Location: Prague (Czech Republic) Date: 27.–28.11.2015 Deadline: 15.10.2015 __ The European Union was described by Jacques Delors as an unidentified political object and by Jose Manuel Barroso as the first non-Imperial empire. The descriptors assigned to the European Union are creative and diverse yet the agreement on what is the actual shape that the EU is taking is by no means an easy one to be achieved. Historical choices shaped and reshaped the size and functioning of the EU while the goal of an emerging ‘ever closer union’ is still in search for the paths of real and not ideal accomplishment. The agreement seems to come when it’s about the growing impact of the decisions taken in Brussels on the daily lives of the European citizens and the increasingly redistributive outcomes of the policy choices inside the EU. These dynamics created the framework for the politicization of Europe and opened a vivid debate about the direction and proportions of such a process. The politicization of Europe takes various shapes and addresses significant puzzles. While it is clear that the EU doesn’t resemble a state it is less clear if the decisions that shape its policies are configured by Pareto efficient outcomes or by dynamics that are intrinsic to political systems and defined by emerging party politics within the European Parliament. The democratic problem or the democratic deficit issue was and continues to be one of the main challenges facing the European Union in any terms or from any position is understood or described. The problem of accountability for the decision making inside the EU was there from the beginning and it emerged gradually as more emphatic on the agenda of vivid debates as the powers of the EU have grown after the Maastricht Treaty. This was concomitant with a growing disenchantment of citizens from member states with politics in general, with debates over the democratic deficits inside member states, with enlargement and with a visible and worrying decrease in voters’ turnouts in both national and especially European elections. The optimist supporters of EU believe in its power to constantly reinvent and reshape while the pessimists see either a persistence of existing problems or a darker scenario that could lead in front of current problems even to the end of the EU as we know it. The International Conference ‘The European Union and the Politicization of Europe’ aims to survey some of these current debates and addresses once more the challenges of the EU polity in a context of multiple crises that confronted Europe in recent years. It supports a transformative view that involves balanced weights of optimism and pessimism in a belief that the unfold of current events and the way EU deals with delicate problems will put an increased pressure in the future on matters of accountability and will require some institutional adjustments that address democratic requirements for decision making. However in its present shape and context the EU does not look able to deliver soon appropriate answers to democratic demands. In a neo-functionalist slang we can say as an irony that the actual crisis in the EU legitimacy is a ‘spillover’ effect of institutional choices made some time before. To address the EU’s democratic deficit however is not to be a skeptic and ignore the benefits that came with it but to acknowledge the increasing popular dissatisfaction with ‘occult’ office politics and with the way EU tackles daily problems of public concern while the public is more and more affected by decisions taken at European level. Is the EU becoming an increasingly politicized entity? Is the on-going politicization of Europe a structured or a messy one? Do political parties within the European Parliament act in a manner that strengthens the view of the EU as an articulate political system? Are there efficient ways for addressing the democratic deficit issue? Can we find usable indicators for detecting an emerging European demos and a European civil society? Does Europeanization of the masses take place or the EU remains a genuinely elitist project? Did the Lisbon Treaty introduce significant changes regarding the challenges facing the EU? Can we see any robust improvements in the accountability of the EU decision making processes? Are there alternative ways of looking at the politicization processes and redistributive policies inside the EU? Is the on-going crisis changing the European politics dramatically? These are only few of the large number of questions that unfold when researchers or practitioners look at the EU. It is the aim of the Fourth International Conference ‘The European Union and the Politicization of Europe’ to address in a con
